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Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.¿ He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt¿s first book was about gro...
Author Frank McCourt moved to Litchfield County a few years after he won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his first book ``Angela's Ashes.¿ He bought a converted 1850s barn, overlooking a pond, on 24 acres in Roxbury. He lives there with his wife Ellen. McCourt wrote his first bestseller when he was in his 60s not long after retiring from a 27-year career as a teacher in the New York City schools. It spent more than three years on the New York Times bestsellers lists and sold nearly 6 million copies in North America alone. In addition to the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography/Autobiography. McCourt¿s first book was about growing up poor in Ireland in the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was born in New York in 1931, his family returned to Ireland in 1934. McCourt quit school as a young teenager to work odd jobs to help support his mother and three surviving brothers. At the age of 19, he returned to the United States and earned his undergraduate degree from New York University, then his Master¿s degree from Brooklyn College in 1958. Then he began his teaching career. The sequel to ¿Angela¿s Ashes¿ was followed by ¿Tis: A Memoir¿ in September 1999 and ¿Teacher Man¿ in 2005.
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Stalemate between Athletics, Giants is a game of legal poker
Legal poker The stalemate is so stale, the one between the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants, that it somehow became big news when someone asked Bud Selig last week whether the A's might move out of the Bay Area and the commissioner basically...
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Letters: Kings have reason to howl
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Dodgers owners could gain much from Bankruptcy Court settlement
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Review: 'Calico Joe' by John Grisham hits for average
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Ned Colletti expects to have more flexibility to improve Dodgers
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Bud Selig needs to take a stance on Athletics' stadium issue
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The Dodgers and the Dee Gordon dilemma
Well, here we are again. Why do I suspect it’s not the last time? Barring an unforeseen trade, for better or worse the Dodgers are currently wedded to Dee Gordon at shortstop. And at the moment, it is for the worst. Right now he looks terrible...
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Dodgers place Jerry Hairston Jr. on DL, call back Justin Sellers
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Dodgers' news on Juan Rivera gets worse: complete hamstring tear
And in this hour’s Dodgers hamstring news, it turns out Juan Rivera’s isn’t some routine tear. His is a completely torn hamstring. Dodgers trainer Sue Falsone said Friday the outfielder would be re-evaluated in two weeks, but the best...
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It's a night for the new guys in Dodgers' 7-3 defeat of Rockies
Ned Colletti was operating under a tight offseason budget. The franchise in utter turmoil, his payroll was severely restricted. The ensuing additions, by his repeated admission, were not individually sexy. No big names, no fat contracts, no headline-...
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In early going, lost fans not rushing back to Dodger Stadium
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Mike Brown downplays Magic Johnson's concerns about job security
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